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good morning atlantis mir that keyboard
selection was played for you by the
commander's birthday girl jenny
weatherby
she must have inherited inherited her
talent from her mother signed
we concur
jim if you wouldn't mind we'd like to
leave the ocac
off for about another 30 minutes
okay no problem uh
direct r2 is off and okay off also for
another 30 minutes
roger and we've got uh tv there on the
flight deck
and scott to let you know we do have tv
on the flight deck
welcome award
and it's got a couple of things uh we
are anticipating the p-o-p-a-o event
to be televised from the core module and
it will be on air to ground too
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dave wolf you're looking very comfy up
there it's uh it's great to see you
dave wolf this question uh just came to
me from your mother she says she's not
uh she's not convinced you're gonna be
able to uh celebrate the jewish holidays
correctly um are you gonna be able to do
that did you bring what you need to do
that
i've got what i need coming up on the
progress in december
a friend of mine has sent it so i'll be
able to celebrate and even without the
items we can do it in mind
all right that's great uh well let me
start there with uh with michael fole
mike we have heard from other astronauts
who have lived on the mir that there
have been various physical and mental
effects that occur to your body and to
your mind
when the level of carbon dioxide aboard
mir gets uh gets higher than you would
like have you noticed any physical
degradation at any time during your
mission or any uh mental uh haziness or
any mental problems at all
while you've been on mir
the answer that is no and
as far as carbon dioxide goes on space
station mir
i have not had any i've noticed it
almost every day uh while i have been
tending
my plants that i've been growing in the
greenhouse i'm aware of the level as uh
as far as the detectors are measuring it
and uh it has always been fairly low
well within the limits that have been
set for um space station rear
habitability
so i'm not quite sure uh how that
report arose
um occasionally the carbon dioxide goes
higher when we have had to use
a different carbon dioxide scrubbing
system but it has always been within the
limits prescribed for the space station
no kidding i've i've seen your family
they are delightful and they are looking
forward to seeing you when you get back
if you will pass the baton over to dave
wolf dave you trained i i think for just
about everything before you travel to
mir have you been surprised by anything
since you've been there
i i was when i first walked in this
place looks like one of those radio
shops in new york city there's so much
gear everywhere
and it's just a playground of equipment
and cameras and recorders so uh i'm
surprised how much can actually be here
it's a very alive living place
jim hold on to the mic for a minute i'd
like you if you will to preview
tomorrow's spacewalk for us what's going
to happen what's the
the best that can happen out of that
spacewalk
well what they intend to do is to
recover uh some experiments that were
deployed
on mission sts 76 i think they are
experiments that have been looking at
the environment of space thought very
harsh environment with cosmic rays and
particles impacting different surfaces
they will bring those experiments back
and we will analyze them down on the
ground it's similar to what we learned
on the long-duration exposure facility
satellite several years ago they also
will deploy some russian hardware that
was sent up uh with us
they'll take it to the outside of the
station that will help
anatoly and and his
folks to
attempt to fix the leak on spectre and
if that's successful then they can
recover the capabilities
uh
in there it's
one thing that we learned
our agency from the russians is to be
flexible the hardware was sent to us
only a couple of weeks before launch and
i was very happy that we were able to
incorporate it into the flight and bring
the hardware up here we brought lots of
different kinds of russian hardware just
in case that doesn't fix the problem
some of the other equipment that the
russians have sent may help to fix the
problem
the first question to you
we know what type of
discussions there were regarding the mir
station on the earth and the joint
mission what was your assessment of the
condition of the mir station and the
complications associated with
the general condition of it could you
please give us your opinion
and this is to the mere crew the russian
members
i think it is a good question
we return to it often
the
best decision was made to continue the
expedition first and not only just using
russian resources but
also to enlist
the nasa specialists in this effort
we in our next
mission
have david wolf who will be performing
the science program set forth
by nasa
and of course we will have a great deal
of work
to perform in
re
covering portions of the station of
course we cannot absolutely
sharply
resolve
operation and repair questions and the
science program because
who can ever who had who has ever
operated such a station over such a
period of time it has been 12 years
that we have been
exploiting uh engineering work by people
in space this is also a test and if we
were to throw this over on half halfway
then it would be just wouldn't make
sense and i think
this is very well understood both
in
here and in russia so that is why
atlantis is next to us right now and why
the
nasa crew is working together with us
and we are all hoping that we will
obtain good results from it all
i can add to the ads of my commander
that undoubtedly the condition of the
station is a lot better than it was one
and a half two months ago when
we
have almost brought it we brought it to
a very high
reliability of onboard systems we also
have a great deal of margin
for uh our on-board systems
they are operating stably and reliably
and the
decision that was made was absolutely
correct
to continue the expedition and the
flight
a great thank you to the commander
to mr weatherby that he's here
we're happy to he see them
and all subsequent shuttles that are
planned
i would like to complement the russian
space agency and the space community for
its resourcefulness first of all this is
a very beautiful space station which i
had the pleasure of seeing a couple of
years ago when we flew close by
i'm very happy to be on board the
beautiful space station mir
it's incredibly resourceful inside there
are many ways to fix things there are
many ways to do scientific experiments
i am very impressed with the equipment
that the russians sent to us to bring up
to the space station to help to fix the
leak
we still don't know where the leak is
and so they sent
equipment of various different kinds in
order to find the leak and help to stop
the leak
and i was very impressed with the
quickness and the resourcefulness that
they used
to send those materials to various
different kinds of materials over to us
to launch
just before we came up to the to the
space station which i'm very impressed
with and i'm glad i'm here
i would like to ask a question to dave
wolf
first of all his impressions of the
station he has
has already
acquired some experience and has
exchanged some opinions with michael
fall
his first impressions
how does he feel
on the station uh how this is a question
for dave wolfe what is your first
impression of the first two days on the
station and we believe that you
completely hand over with mike paul and
please tell about your first impression
on the station
very positive i feel myself
very positive
this is a wonderful station
a wonderful crew
anatoly
and
there's no feeling it's a very i feel
very secure and i feel uh very good i
feel better
and houston uh i'll go ahead and send
you the picture now from
the base block
okay we're ready
well now that's a good picture
yeah and we did see that as you zoomed
out that lost focus
much better
and we assume scott is using of course
using manual focus and not autofocus
and michael paul staying with you as you
know the issue of mere safety has become
an important issue in congress right now
and representative sensenbrenner
republican of wisconsin did not want
david wolfe to be left behind when the
shuttle leaves later this week how do
you answer those concerns you who've
been there through these very difficult
four months
well i
i have only positive things to say about
those concerns i
and what i mean is i appreciate the
senator's concern i think the the
interest in safety i think the very open
discussion that the senate and the
congressional interest has provoked it
both nasa and in russia has been very
helpful i think there has been progress
as a result of all of this scrutiny by
congress
however i always have felt safe here
because behind us is a spacecraft called
soyuz and the soyuz in any event can
allow us to leave the station in a real
emergency
the problems of
power management
too much condensation the things that
you've seen reported they are real
problems that we have to deal with but
they're not life-threatening they can
make your life a little uncomfortable
and if they went on for a long time your
life could become miserable but we
generally uh surpass these things and uh
and put them to the side
and michael foale give us a sense of
some of the experiments or what you've
learned
from the collision for example that make
these risks especially worth it
well
no no one likes a collision and uh i
can't say i ever choose to do that one
again
um
however
once
the whole point in most big endeavors
and this is a great endeavor between our
countries russia and america in uh doing
this international program you are going
to have accidents and the strength in
this program is how you overcome the
unexpected problems not in how you
execute all the things that you planned
for and i think the way we're overcoming
this is really what we should be proud
of
and commander you've brought a whole new
uh computer or the parts to make a new
computer for the premiere is that right
that's true and here it is right here
mike is going to uh lift it up and show
it it is a
new
guidance control computer for the mirror
which hopefully will
help
keep their attitude without losing their
attitude
david wolf
tell me what your goals are for the next
month what key experiments are you going
to be working on
first order of business is to get the
laboratory in full working order we're
well along the way i wish you could see
it it's a wonderful microgravity
laboratory
we're working with three-dimensional
tissue cultures
the last few days where we are able to
grow three-dimensional tissues which
behave
will help us learn the principles for
tissue engineering and are useful for
our cancer research programs and a whole
slew of other experiments
dear friends
shuttle
soon the people of earth will celebrate
the 40th anniversary of the first
artificial earth
specialist
right now we have on board a large crew
we have commander jim weatherby who's
the commander of the atlantis crew who
brought his craft
very beautifully and very well docked
with us in the manual mode
saw sputnik when i was small
i am therefore very happy
to have this possibility
opportunity
this is these are
great days that must excite
everyone 40 years ago we had a new word
sputnik
we
today call it an artificial earth
satellite
and
every person could hear the signals from
space the short radio beeps but they
uh meant very much for each person on
earth
it opened a new era
and undoubtedly
epic of space has begun
uh starting on that day
uh thanks to that that small sputnik
today we have large inhabited uh large
volumes inhabited by astronauts and
cosmonauts
we have craft such as atlantis
and today we wish to
greet
all the people who started this great
enterprise health happiness great
success
we know
that the labor of many people
who
uh work on something remains unnoticed
but we astronauts and cosmonauts
understand this very well
and we
are today talking to these people a
great thanks to them
for their
great labor
that was the basis of our work
and which would not be possible
otherwise
thank you very much
health to you happiness to you
personally to your families
and
great successes
to our common cause the opening the
exploration of space
land to smear
houston for wendy
yes wendy uh i know you're in the middle
of your checks one other thing that's
been brought up is that in the coal
start procedure in flight supplement
8-16 of the orbitops checklist in step
one you powered off the pgsc in the
expansion chassis and then in step three
you powered them back up apparently
there is a documented uh
problem with doing that without waiting
for a couple of minutes on occasion when
a pgsc is powered up immediately after
being powered down
it doesn't power back up and
if everything else checks out we would
like to suggest trying it again but
waiting two minutes between powering
down and powering back up
well there was already a two minute
delay and it looks like the breakout box
has a problem which i'm still trying to
troubleshoot
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